Where I Lived, and What I Lived For “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Some poems to study that were not specifically mentioned in the film but can easily be connected up to it. For example:
1) My Papa's Waltz - by Theodore Roethke - deals with the emotional, sometimes violent, elements in a relationship between a parent and a child.
2) "Walking Away" - by C. Day Lewis - deals with a son leaving home and the separation from his parent.
3) "Richard Cory" - by Edwin Arlington Robinson - deals with the theme of suicide and false impressions.
4) "Musee des Beaux Arts" - by W.H. Auden - the relevancy here could be around the figure of Icarus, i.e., trying to go beyond one's reach - did Keating ask his pupils to reach too far?
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A list of poems from Dead Poets Society
A list of poems from Dead Poets Society
The Ballad of William Bloat - Raymond Calvert
The Prophet - Abraham Cowley
The Congo - Vachel Lindsay
A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
Sonnet XVIII - William Shakespeare
O Me! O Life! - Walt Whitman
Song of Myself XVI - Walt Whitman
Song of Myself Section 52 - Walt Whitman
Walden
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost
Referred to by Mr. Keating during one of his lessons.
To the Virgins, by Robert Herrick
Read during first class with Keating to introduce "carpe diem."
O Captain, my Captain, by Walt Whitman
Referred to by Mr. Keating during one of his lessons; also a reference to what he suggest the students call him.
Ulysses,_ by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Read by Neil Perry during one of the Dead Poets Society meeting in the cave.
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day, (a sonnet) by William Shakespeare
First poem read by Charlie Dalton (Nuwanda) to the girls he brought to the Dead Poets Society meeting.
She Walks in Beauty, by Lord Byron
Second poem read by Charlie Dalton (Nuwanda) to the girls he brought to the Dead Poets Society meeting.
Puck’s speech at the end of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Lines spoken by Neil at the end of the play. He played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Scroll down to the very end of the page for the speech.
Some poems to study that were not specifically mentioned in the film but can easily be connected up to it. For example:
1) My Papa's Waltz - by Theodore Roethke - deals with the emotional, sometimes violent, elements in a relationship between a parent and a child.
2) "Walking Away" - by C. Day Lewis - deals with a son leaving home and the separation from his parent.
3) "Richard Cory" - by Edwin Arlington Robinson - deals with the theme of suicide and false impressions.
4) "Musee des Beaux Arts" - by W.H. Auden - the relevancy here could be around the figure of Icarus, i.e., trying to go beyond one's reach - did Keating ask his pupils to reach too far?
Stopping By Woods.pptx